2008 in heavy metal music
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2008.
Reformed bands
- At the Gates (for a few shows)
- Carcass (for a few shows)
- Forbidden (for a few shows)
- Immortal
Albums
January
- Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
- Avantasia - The Scarecrow
- Benedictum - Seasons of Tragedy
- Brainstorm - Downburst
- Bullet for My Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire
- Byzantine - Oblivion Beckons
- Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance)
- The Red Death - Godmakers
February
- Agalloch - The White (EP)
- Ascension of the Watchers - Numinosum
- Ayreon - 01011001
- Baptism - Grim Arts Of Melancholy
- Dark Fortress - Eidolon
- Death Angel - Killing Season
- Dismember - Dismember
- Eluveitie - Slania
- Exciter - Thrash Speed Burn
- Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
- Norther - N
- Nortt - Galgenfrist
- Rage - Carved In Stone
- Sculptured - Embodiment: Collapsing Under The Weight Of God
- Steel Attack - Carpe DiEnd
- Unheilig - Puppenspiel
March
- Black Tide - Light From Above
- Bloodbath - Unblessing the Purity
- Bury Your Dead - Bury Your Dead (album)
- Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
- Firewind - The Premonition (album)
- Ill Niño - Enigma
- Korpiklaani- Korven Kuningas
- Mercenary - Architect of Lies
- Meshuggah - obZen
- Nasum - Doombringer
April
- Arsis - We Are the Nightmare
- Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
- Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
- Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
- In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
- Kalmah - For the Revolution
- Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky
- P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance
- Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
- Testament - The Formation of Damnation
- Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine
May
- Deftones - Eros
- Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
- Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again
- Ihsahn - angL
- Kataklysm - Prevail
- Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
- Wintersun - Time (release expected)
June
- Daylight Dies- Lost to the Living
- Disturbed - Indestructible
- Opeth - Watershed
- Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe (release expected)
July
August
- Bleeding Through - Declaration
unknown
- AC/DC - TBA
- Alice in Chains - TBA
- All That Remains - TBA
- Anthrax - TBA
- As Blood Runs Black - TBA
- Catamenia - VIII
- Cannabis Corpse - TBA
- Cattle Decapitation - TBA
- Celtic Frost - TBA
- Chrome Division - TBA
- Commander - The Enemies We Create
- Confessor - TBA
- Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
- Cradle of Filth - "TBA"
- Deathstars - Deathglam
- D.R.I. - TBA
- Early Man - TBA
- Evergrey - TBA
- Exit Ten - Remember The Day
- Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit B
- Extreme - TBA
- Gojira - TBA
- Heaven and Hell - TBA
- Iced Earth - Revelation Abomination (Something Wicked Part 2)
- Judas Priest - Nostradamus
- Kreator - TBA
- Living Colour - TBA
- Mastodon - TBA
- Metallica - TBA
- Morbid Angel - TBA
- Necrophagist - TBA
- Nevermore - TBA
- Primus - TBA
- Pyramaze - Immortal
- Sabaton - The Art Of War
- Scorpions - Humanity: Hour II
- Sepultura - TBA
- Slayer - TBA
- Slipknot - TBA
- Six Feet Under - TBA[1]
- Stratovarius - R.... R.....
- Suicidal Tendencies - TBA
- Tesla - TBA
- Thine Eyes Bleed - TBA
- Trivium - TBA
- Unearth - TBA
- Verbal Abuse - TBA
- Walls of Jericho - TBA
- Wicked Wisdom - TBA
- Zyklon - TBA
DVD
- Agalloch - TBA
- Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage
- Iron Maiden - Live After Death
- Dimmu Borgir - TBA
- Tarot - TBA
Disbandments
Events
- Mikael Åkerfeldt rejoins Bloodbath in late January.
- Ola Frenning leaves Soilwork in February.